how about breaker bars, able to snap ratchets in a single bound. this past weekend i lost
2 1/2 ratchets to tork. hehe.. my next door helper with 200lbs pound on my bug axle nut

Joe

-----Original Message-----
From: Jake de Villiers <crescentbeachguitar@TELUS.NET>
Sent: Nov 4, 2005 2:59 PM
To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
Subject: Re: Tools defined (it's a Fryedaye thing...)

I agree - it is perfect. Just wanted to give credit where due.

Jake

----- Original Message -----
From: "Evan Mac Donald" <macdonald1987@SBCGLOBAL.NET>
To: <vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM>
Sent: Friday, November 04, 2005 2:40 PM
Subject: Re: Tools defined (it's a Fryedaye thing...)

> Sorry - was not aware of the authorship - was sent to me unattributed. I
thought it worth sending on to fellow mechanically (dis)inclined types,
so...
>
> Jake de Villiers <crescentbeachguitar@TELUS.NET> wrote:Geez Evan, you
might have had the courtesy to credit Peter Egan with
> authorship of this old Road & Track column! It hits the nail on the head
> though, doesn't it?
>
> Jake
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Evan Mac Donald"
> To:
> Sent: Friday, November 04, 2005 1:36 PM
> Subject: Tools defined (it's a Fryedaye thing...)
>
>
> > See how many of these you recognise - or may even have!!
> >
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> > 1. DRILL PRESS: A tall upright machine useful for suddenly snatching
> > flat metal bar stock out of your hands so that it smacks you in the
> > chest and flings your beer across the room, splattering it against that
> > freshly painted part you were drying.
> >
> > 2. WIRE WHEEL: Cleans paint off bolts and then throws them somewhere
> > under the workbench with the speed of light. Also removes fingerprint
> > whorls and hard-earned guitar calluses in about the time it takes you to
> > say, "SH**!!!"
> >
> > 3. ELECTRIC HAND DRILL: Normally used for spinning pop rivets in their
> > holes until you die of old age
> >
> > 4. PLIERS: Used to round off hexagonal bolt heads.
> >
> > 5. HACKSAW: One of a family of cutting tools built on the Ouija board
> > principle: It transforms human energy into a crooked, unpredictable
> > motion, and the more you attempt to influence its course, the more
> > dismal your future becomes.
> >
> > 6. VISE GRIP PLIERS: Used to round off bolt heads. If nothing else is
> > available, they can also be used to transfer intense welding heat to the
> > palm of your hand.
> >
> > 7. OXYACETYLENE TORCH: Used almost entirely for setting various
> > flammable objects in your shop on fire. Also handy for igniting the
> > grease inside a wheel hub you're trying to get the bearing race out of.
> >
> > 8. WHITWORTH SOCKETS: Once used for working on older British cars and
> > motorcycles, they are now used mainly for impersonating that 9/16 or 1/2
> > socket you've been searching for the last 15 minutes.
> >
> > 9. HYDRAULIC FLOOR JACK: Used for lowering an automobile to the ground
> > after you have installed your new disk brake pads, trapping the jack
> > handle firmly under the bumper.
> >
> > 10. EIGHT-FOOT LONG DOUGLAS FIR 4X4: Used to attempt to lever an
> > automobile upward off a hydraulic jack handle.
> >
> > 11. TWEEZERS: A tool for removing splinters of wood, especially Douglas
> > fir.
> >
> > 12. TELEPHONE: Tool for calling your neighbor to see if he has another
> > hydraulic floor jack.
> >
> > 13. SNAP-ON GASKET SCRAPER: Theoretically useful as a sandwich tool for
> > spreading mayonnaise; used mainly for removing dog feces from your
> > boots.
> >
> > 14. E-Z OUT BOLT AND STUD EXTRACTOR: A tool that snaps off in bolt holes
> > and is ten times harder than any known drill bit.
> >
> > 15. TWO-TON HYDRAULIC ENGINE HOIST: A handy tool for testing the tensile
> > strength of bolts and fuel lines you forgot to disconnect.
> >
> > 16. CRAFTSMAN 1/2 x 16-INCH SCREWDRIVER: A large motor mount prying tool
> > that inexplicably has an accurately machined screwdriver tip on the
> >
> > end without the handle.
> >
> > 17 AVIATION METAL SNIPS: See hacksaw.
> >
> > 18. TROUBLE LIGHT: The home builder's own tanning booth. Sometimes
> > called drop light, it is a good source of vitamin D, "the sunshine
> > vitamin," which is not otherwise found under cars at night. Health
> > benefits aside, its main purpose is to consume 40-watt light bulbs at
> > about the same rate that 105-mm howitzer shells might be used during,
> > say, the first few hours of the Battle of the Bulge. More often dark
> > than light, its name is somewhat misleading.
> >
> > 19. PHILLIPS SCREWDRIVER: Normally used to stab the lids of old-style
> > paper-and-tin oil cans and squirt oil on your shirt; can also be used,
> > as the name implies, to round off the interiors of Phillips screw heads.
> >
> > 20. AIR COMPRESSOR: A machine that takes energy produced in a
> > coal-burning power plant 200 miles away and transforms it into
> > compressed air that travels by hose to an Pneumatic impact wrench that
> > grips rusty bolts last tightened 70 years ago by someone at Ford, and
> > rounds them off.
> >
> > 21. PRY BAR: A tool used to crumple the metal surrounding that clip or
> > bracket you needed to remove in order to replace a 50 cent part.
> >
> > 22. HOSE CUTTER: A tool used to cut hoses 1/2 inch too short.
> >
> > 23. HAMMER: Originally employed as a weapon of war, the hammer
> > now-a-days is used as a kind of divining rod to locate expensive parts
> > not far from the object we are trying to hit.
> >
> > 24. MECHANIC'S KNIFE: Used to open and slice through the contents of
> > cardboard cartons delivered to your front door; works particularly well
> > on boxes containing upholstered items, chrome-plated metal, and plastic
> > parts
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> > Evan Mac Donald
> >
> > 1984 Wolfburg
> > 1985 GL 7 Pass.
> > 1991 Carat Weekender
> > 1972 Chevy P/U
> > 1993 Bonneville
> >
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